New Dambudzo Marechera Book Published
Editors Julie Cairnie and Dobrota Pucherova have announced the publication of Moving Spirit: The Legacy of Dambudzo Marechera in the 21st Century (LIT Verlag, Berlin 2012). The book will be launched on *Saturday, June 16 at 6 pm in The Buttery, St. Antony's College, Oxford*, as part of the annual Britain-Zimbabwe Research Day. The launch, which will include screenings of films from the DVD that accompanies the book, comes as part of the celebration of Marechera's 60th birthday. About the book : This multimedia collection was inspired by the life and work of the Zimbabwean cult writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) demonstrates the growing influence of this author among writers, artists and scholars worldwide and invites the reassessment of his oeuvre and of categories of literary theory such as modernism, postmodernism and postcolonialism. Including a DVD with audio-visual creative con...